It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.
Lauren OliverHow can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?
Lauren OliverIt's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.
Lauren OliverI used to lie here like this all summer long,' I tell her. 'I'd come up here and just stare at the sky.' She rolls over on her back so she's staring up as well. 'Bet this view hasn't changed much, has it?' What she says is so simple i almost laugh. She's right, of course. 'No. This looks exactly the same.' I suppose that's the secret, If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were. You just have to look up.
Lauren Oliver